Please keep in mind that bigmem is unsupported and it may not work as expected.
<ot> The support part can be a big issue and it's important if you are using OpenBSD within your business to calculate the risk that you can't buy support directly from OpenBSD. There are consultants in most countries but it's not the same thing. </ot> // rancor 2011/1/6 Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de> > * Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> [2011-01-06 18:04]: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:43:51AM -0500, Ben Adams wrote: > > > I know OpenBSD is built for security. > > > Using OpenBSD with bigmem on Mysql and PHP (No need for apache) > machine. > > > How much of a preformance difference is there from FreeBSD?? > > > Looking for % or TBS or QBS. > > > > > > Machines will be mini 1U. > > > one Quad core and 8GB of ram. > > > > > > Thanks and yes OpenBSD is built for security. Just looking for > performance difference. > > > > The only way to answer this is to do the measurements yourself, using > > *your* hardware and *your* application. > > absolutely. > > in most cases there isn't much of a difference. > in a few cases - that tend to be picked to support an argument, wether > they matter in reality or not - there is a substantial difference. in > both directions. > > -- > Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org > BS Web Services, http://bsws.de > Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services > Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
